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title: "ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and bycatch issues got discussed at the Pacific Seabird Group’s latest annual meeting"
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# ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and bycatch issues got discussed at the Pacific Seabird Group’s latest annual meeting

A number of presentations on albatrosses and issues relating to seabird bycatch by fisheries was made at the [44th Annual Meeting](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/annual-meeting/) of the [Pacific Seabird Group](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/) held in Tacoma, Washington, USA, last week.

 Titles with senior authors follow.  [Click here](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/PSG_2017_ABSTRACTS.pdf) to read their abstracts (find them via the index).  
[http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/)

 Arden Blumenthal:  Could lasers damage albatross vision? a review of potential risks

 Jane Dolliver:  Multispectral processing of high resolution satellite imagery to determine the abundance of nesting albatross

 Jonathan Felis:  Migratory routes and wintering areas of Pink-footed Shearwaters (*Ardenna creatopus*)

 Amanda Gladics:  Community engagement strategies for promoting seabird bycatch reduction in commercial fisheries

 Ed Melvin: The devil is in the detail: trends in albatross bycatch rates in Alaskan longline fisheries

 Pamela Michael: Spatially-explicit population dynamics: incorporating bycatch and environmental variation

 Hannah Nevins:  Status and conservation of Waved Albatross

 Rachael Orben:  Comparative flight altitudes of Hawaiian albatrosses

 John Peschon:  A summary of albatross band recovery data in the Hawaii deep and shallow set longline fisheries

 John Peschon:  Seabird interactions in the Hawaii deep and shallow set longline fisheries in 2015

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Waved/Waved Albatross Isla La Plata Sebastian Cruz 4.jpg)

  [Critically Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/waved-albatross-phoebastria-irrorata) Waved Albatross *Phoebatria irrorata* on Ecuador's Isla La Plata, photograph by Sebastian Cruz 

 Many other presentations were made on procellariform seabirds not listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement, notably on the threatened petrels and shearwaters of the Hawaiian islands.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 March 2017*